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Digital textbooks coming, quickly and surely
- 05-06-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Few high schools have yet to put them to use, but free digital textbooks keep on coming. There are now 27 textbooks, partly or completely aligned with state standards, with two more in the wings, following completion last week of the second phase of textbook review by a state agency, the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN). All but one that went through the review process are math and science textbooks, primarily written by college professors. The exception is an outline of American history. It’ll be a few years before digital texts find their way into the classroom, but the first wave is coming and inexorable. (more...)
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